Ankaras political and military rulers expect that a Turkish military presence in Afghanistan will indirectly provide the country with a wider margin of maneuver and a greater say in the prospective reshaping of the region,

-Type prisons are specially designed maximum-security facilities, which Human Rights Watch, the global human rights group, calls physically and psychologically damaging to prisoners. The prisons are designed to keep prisoners in isolation.

The death of a political prisoner in Turkey last week may spark a chain of similar action by other inmates on hunger strike in the countrys prisons, a medical doctor has warned.

The letter of intent, released Tuesday, pledges that major public banks, the strongholds of Turkeys crony capitalism, will be merged and privatised in three years. State subsidies to beetle and tobacco farming will be stopped.

Should the modern forces also succeed in gathering some minor forces of the right, the whole panorama of Turkish politics might change, says Rusen Cakir, an analyst on Islamist movements.